Word Meanings - VERACITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being veracious; habitual observance of truth; truthfulness; truth; as, a man of veracity.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of VERACITY)

• Honesty
• Integrity
• probity
• uprightness
• straightforwardness
• fairness
• sincerity
• honor
• rectitude
• virtue
• justice
• veracity

Related words: (words related to VERACITY)

• HONESTY
  Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also lunary and moonwort. Lunaria biennis is common honesty; L. rediva is perennial honesty.
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• UPRIGHTNESS
  the quality or state of being upright.
• HONORABLENESS
  1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
• INTEGRITY
  1. The state or quality of being entire or complete; wholeness; entireness; unbroken state; as, the integrity of an empire or territory. Sir T. More. 2. Moral soundness; honesty; freedom from corrupting influence or motive; -- used especially with
• HONOR
  1. Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of respect or reverence. A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country. Matt. xiii.
• FAIRNESS
  The state of being fair, or free form spots or stains, as of the skin; honesty, as of dealing; candor, as of an argument, etc.
• JUSTICESHIP
  The office or dignity of a justice. Holland.
• HONORARY
  1. Done as a sign or evidence of honor; as, honorary services. Macaulay. 2. Conferring honor, or intended merely to confer honor without emolument; as, an honorary degree. "Honorary arches." Addison. 3. Holding a title or place without rendering
• VIRTUELESS
  Destitute of virtue; without efficacy or operating qualities; powerless. Virtueless she wished all herbs and charms. Fairfax.
• SINCERITY
  The quality or state of being sincere; honesty of mind or intention; freedom from simulation, hypocrisy, disguise, or false pretense; sincereness. I protest, in the sincerity of love. Shak. Sincerity is a duty no less plain than important. Knox.
• HONORLESS
  Destitute of honor; not honored. Bp. Warburton.
• JUSTICEHOOD
  Justiceship. B. Jonson.
• VIRTUE
  One of the orders of the celestial hierarchy. Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers. Milton. Cardinal virtues. See under Cardinal, a. -- In, or By, virtue of, through the force of; by authority of. "He used to travel through Greece by
• JUSTICEMENT
  Administration of justice; procedure in courts of justice. Johnson.
• HONORARIUM; HONORARY
  An honorary payment, usually in recognition of services for which it is not usual or not lawful to assign a fixed business price. Heumann. (more info) 1. A fee offered to professional men for their services; as, an honorarium of one thousand
• HONORER
  One who honors.
• PROBITY
  Tried virtue or integrity; approved moral excellence; honesty; rectitude; uprightness. "Probity of mind." Pope. Syn. -- Probity, Integrity. Probity denotes unimpeachable honesty and virtue, shown especially by the performance of those obligations,
• HONORIFIC
  Conferring honor; tending to honor. London. Spectator.
• VERACITY
  The quality or state of being veracious; habitual observance of truth; truthfulness; truth; as, a man of veracity.
• DISHONESTY
  1. Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame. "The hidden things of dishonesty." 2 Cor. iv. 2. 2. Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness.
• INJUSTICE
  1. Want of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition. If this people resembled Nero in their extravagance, much more did they resemble and even exceed him in cruelty and injustice.
• INSINCERITY
  The quality of being insincere; want of sincerity, or of being in reality what one appears to be; dissimulation; hypocritical; deceitfulness; hollowness; untrustworthiness; as, the insincerity of a professed friend; the insincerity of professions
• DISHONOR
  The nonpayment or nonacceptance of commercial paper by the party on whom it is drawn. Syn. -- Disgrace; ignominy; shame; censure; reproach; opprobrium. (more info) deshonur, F. déshonneur; pref. des- + honor, honur, F. 1. Lack of honor;
• CHIEF JUSTICE
  The presiding justice, or principal judge, of a court. Lord Chief Justice of England, The presiding judge of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice. The highest judicial officer of the realm is the Lord High Chancellor. -- Chief
• INVERACITY
  Want of veracity.
• DISHONORABLE
  1. Wanting in honor; not honorable; bringing or deserving dishonor; staining the character, and lessening the reputation; shameful; disgraceful; base. 2. Wanting in honor or esteem; disesteemed. He that is dishonorable in riches, how much more
• UNSINCERITY
  The quality or state of being unsincere or impure; insincerity. Boyle.
• UNVERACITY
  Want of veracity; untruthfulness; as, unveracity of heart. Carlyle.